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I would ask myself: "How does a well-financed, large team not have *anyone* raise these obvious accessibility issues during development?"
But me and my wife work in software development. We both know that someone likely did raise this. And unfortunately what happens. (cont.) https://twitter.com/theepictheymer/status/1336178597715972098
But me and my wife work in software development. We both know that someone likely did raise this. And unfortunately what happens. (cont.) https://twitter.com/theepictheymer/status/1336178597715972098
These issues are flagged as "non-breaking". These are *valid concerns*, says the team lead, and "we should address these when we have time".
But CDPR didn't make time. In fact due to bad-planning, they all but ensured these issues wouldn't get addressed. https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1311059656090038272
But CDPR didn't make time. In fact due to bad-planning, they all but ensured these issues wouldn't get addressed. https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1311059656090038272
There is no excuse, today, for large game studios to not entirely address accessibility concerns from the design phase. Nearly every indie title I have played these past two years has made the effort. https://twitter.com/MaddyThorson/status/1113534763564826624
Game publishers & and profit-driven businesses have *no* interest in spending trivial amounts of money to help the 25% of Americans with disabilities, unless they are required to by law.
But standards like the CVAA don't cover jack shit. https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-cvaa
But standards like the CVAA don't cover jack shit. https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/21st-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-cvaa
What can you do to help? Well if you're an EU citizen, write to your MEP to draft a proposal extending the European accessibility act (EAA) to *non-essential products and services*. Currently only your console needs to meet accessibility guidelines, not the games released for it.
Otherwise you can help by donating to charities like @stevenspohn AbleGamers, who fight to make games open and accessible to everyone.
https://ablegamers.org/ways-to-give/
https://ablegamers.org/ways-to-give/
Remember: you personally might not need accessibility features, but imagine suffering from a serious and untreatable condition like epilepsy, and told "you can't play the biggest game title of this year, as we don't consider you important enough to make basic considerations for."
